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Physicians Get Proactive
Physicians Get Proactive
Physicians Get Proactive
As the nation's opioid addiction epidemic continues to rise, dozens of physicians from local emergency departments gathered Thursday evening to discuss methods of preventing even further growth.
Nurse and Patient Reunited 38 Years Later
Nurse and Patient Reunited 38 Years Later
Nurse and Patient Reunited 38 Years Later
I'm not sure if anything like this ever happened to any Southcoast nurses. If so, please contact me. In the meantime, a woman used social media to find the nurse who comforted her as a baby suffering from severe burns. The nurse, who cared for her 38 years ago at Albany Medical Center in upstate New York when she was a baby, was miraculously found because of social media and one woman's resolve...
NLRB Steps In
NLRB Steps In
NLRB Steps In
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against the Southcoast Hospital Group alleging it's bargained in bad faith with nurses at Tobey Hospital in Wareham. The union representing those nurses, the Mass. Nurses Association, says bargaining began in November, 2014, but the hospital declared an impasse less than six months later...
Blizzard Babies
Blizzard Babies
Blizzard Babies
Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River was a "happening" place during the Blizzard of 2015. Dr. Patrick Nugent, the chief of OBGYN at Southcoast Health tells WBSM News, there were three "blizzard babies" born during the storm..... Nugent says one doctor ended up spending 36 hours in the hospital caring for patients...
VA Pay Dispute Settled
VA Pay Dispute Settled
VA Pay Dispute Settled
The dispute over salaries for nurses at the New Bedford VA Medical Center has been resolved. The VA said the nurses had been overpaid for years and had threatened to cut their pay by 14%-20%, and require them to repay the over-payments...